Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography

(nature.com)

43 points | by lnyan 2 days ago

4 comments

  • Guestmodinfo 1 hour ago
    I really wanted to make a career in tomography. But had only one elective from another department and didn't know how to make it into this stream.
  • o4c 2 hours ago
    Relevant article:

    Scanning the Body with Sound

    https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/scanning-the-body-with-so...

  • ajcp 3 hours ago
    Be interested to know if this is related to the same process/technology that Midjourney announced last week[0]

    0. https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost

    • ssivark 0 minutes ago
      [delayed]
    • mrandish 2 hours ago
      Unpaywalled link to the paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/ef7ae3bff634710f87124...

      This is similar only in using an array of off-axis ultrasound tomography receivers but otherwise unrelated in that it's a serious publication with detailed information demonstrating potential medical utility. Near as I could tell, Midjourney Medical is an idea for a trendy spa treatment dressed up to look sci-fi cool. It's based on a repackaging of 40 of the exact same chip in Butterfly's handheld, full contact USB pocket-sized scanner which plugs into a mobile phone and is already available.

      The CalTech team who wrote the Nature paper appears to be using an array of Olympus transducers equipped with their own custom lenses and a rotating emitter. Notably, the CalTech paper is focused on evaluating potential clinical benefits.

  • ggm 1 hour ago
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